Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through a fantastic pre-convention week Hamilton drove a bandwagon. Nothing was news unless it bore the name of Landon. A majority of Pennsylvania delegates would plump for Landon. All the Old Guard politicians were conspiring in vain to ''Stop Landon." Indiana's State Convention picked its delegates, tagged them Landon. Emporia's sage, beaming William Allen White, and troops of Kansans roamed the streets wearing yellow sunflowers inscribed "Landon." The Texas delegation came out, all over again, for Landon...
...delightfully entertained," said Haile Selassie, and drove down the hill to take cocktails on the battle cruiser Hood...
...Meyer waved three bruised fingers to salute the crowd, collected vouchers for $20,000 first prize and $1,900 in lap prizes, wiped the grease off his face, changed his clothes, left the track in a coupe he had won for being first at the 200th lap. Mrs. Meyer drove...
...last week revealed the peculiar organization of the present German Government. Perpetually standing between Adolf Hitler and the lusty, quarreling Nazi cliques are a group of bachelor bodyguards. Their chief is Lieutenant Friedrich Wilhelm Bruckner, 6 ft. 4 in. tall, who sleeps outside Hitler's door. When Hitler drove out in his huge Mercedes-Benz, the man at the wheel was usually Julius Schreck, muscular, slit-eyed sub-commander of the Schutzstaffel, who wore an imitation Hitler mustache. Substitute chauffeur was Erich Kempka, 25, Schutzstaffel captain. Since even Prussian Premier Goring and Minister of Propaganda Goebbels cannot...
...never afraid to get close to his animals. Once he was clawed by a leopard. On another occasion, while studying a herd of elephants, he was suddenly charged by a bull. His gun jammed. Akeley seized the tusks of the oncoming beast, swung himself between them so that they drove into the ground without touching him. With its trunk the elephant smashed the explorer's nose, laid open his cheek, broke several ribs which punctured his lungs, then was distracted by the native boys and gave chase. During a three-month convalescence in a hospital, Akeley planned...